Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

what were they asking sean about that caused him to leave? NK? obamacare repeal? the civil war? the holocaust?

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I've been saying this for a while. Interviewers should be setting him up for fall after fall.

Brandon Friedmant
@BFriedmanDC

I'm telling you guys, next person to interview Trump needs to ask him if slavery was all bad or if there were positive aspects. He'll bite.

has anyone just straight up asked him about how he reconciles his adoration of andrew jackson with jackson's ownership of a couple hundred slaves?

his daughter has taken over the oval office. he's king learing

i know it seems silly, but it's possible that trump doesn't even know that jackson owned slaves, and about the Indian Removal Act. he didn't really understand how NATO worked. he didn't get the whole north korea thing. so it seems very possible that bannon just whispered "andrew jackson is a great role model" in his ear a few times and trump never bothered learning about the details.

i can't believe i'm serious about that but i am. totally wrong place to put this but who cares: i am depressed, not from this but from everything, inside and out, the last several months, so i am going to take a break from the internet for a while because it's no longer helping me

I doubt Trump gave two seconds' thought to Jackson until Obama threatened to take Jackson off the $20 bill in favor of Harriet Tubman last year. xp

funny, like a clown?

It is hard to believe this is happening, but it’s real: The US Department of Justice is literally prosecuting a woman for laughing at now–Attorney General Jeff Sessions during his Senate confirmation hearing earlier this year.

According to Ryan Reilly at HuffPost, Code Pink activist Desiree Fairooz was arrested in January after she laughed at a claim from Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) that Sessions’s history of “treating all Americans equally under the law is clear and well-documented.”....

As Reilly reported, prosecutors argue that “the laugh amounted to willful ‘disorderly and disruptive conduct’ intended to ‘impede, disrupt, and disturb the orderly conduct’ of congressional proceedings.” In court, they have tried to emphasize that the laugh was extraordinarily disruptive, with a US Capitol Police officer claiming that Fairooz laughed “very loudly” and people in the hearings turned around when they heard it.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/2/15518574/desiree-fairooz-justice-department

andrew jackson means dick all to donald trump as soren kierkegaard does. donald trump inherited shittons of property. fuck everyone else. he's got this. mitch mcconnell stole a supreme court seat. inherited wealth rules the united states of america. fuck jesus and empathy : (

<3 u Karl

is it possible that all this time Trump has been conflating Andrew Jackson with Andrew Johnson?

has anybody told Trump Jackson was a Democrat

Andrew Johnson made the same mistake.

Xpost

i love that the subtext of the civil war/andrew jackson stuff is that ol Abe Lincoln didn't do a good job dealing with the civil war

lol

"but he was a Republican!"

Dishonest Abe coulda just negotiated his way out of it if he hadn't been such a low energy cuck

you know what? equality is for suckers. i'm an american

If everybody in Ford's Theatre was armed...

it's possible that trump doesn't even know that jackson owned slaves, and about the Indian Removal Act

Maybe some of the Cherokees were good people. But a lot of them were bad hombres. Not many people know that.

so it seems very possible that bannon just whispered "andrew jackson is a great role model" in his ear a few times and trump never bothered learning about the details.

― Karl Malone, Tuesday, May 2, 2017 2:11 PM (fifty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I would say with maybe 80-90% certainty, unless he was directly referred to as such, that it took a little time after Bannon (or whoever) started gushing about Andrew Jackson for Trump to discover that Jackson was a former president. This is a profoundly stupid man who spoke about Frederick Douglass in the present tense, because he probably genuinely didn't know who he was.

Thinkpiece

Our national armchair faces a television, where Trump has already appeared for years, and where he now appears almost constantly. But the armchair metaphor, like the furniture itself, is rather quaint: Trump’s personality, in all its outsized vulgarity, looms over and inside the lives of many Americans in a way that no other President really has before. There is no comfortable distance from which to psychoanalyze Trump, because the man is always onscreen, right in front of us. He is at the doctor’s office and the departure gate, at the sports bar and the auto repair shop. He is on huge screens in Times Square and on the little screens we carry in our pockets. You may yet have been spared seeing Trump on the TV in some fancy restroom, but if you’re among the one in two Americans who check their phones while on the toilet, odds are you’ve had an encounter with him there, too. Trump intrudes into spaces virtual and physical, public, and deeply private. Forget psychoanalysis-as-plague: it’s Trump that’s truly viral.

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i just got a new windoze computer (never had one before) and i was a little dismayed that the newsy tiles on the start menu of course became a constant stream of trump stories before i had even tried to configure them

so there was a phone call w/ Putin today: Syria, terrorism, N Korea

and here we sit

a silver spoon asshole who'd rather golf than read leads a nation of odysseus anti-virtuosic post-punk badasses. laffer curve

a silver spoon asshole who'd rather golf than read leads a nation of odysseus anti-virtuosic post-punk badasses. laffer curve

― reggie (qualmsley)

when did ian svenonius quit being the sassiest boy in america

mark twain is the number one blues singer in the country. joyce kilmer. blues explosion!

Yeah I can't remember the last time I sat in an armchair that was facing a television. 2002? 2006?

My children (6 and 10) have almost never sat in a chair and faced a television. They just plop down with a tablet wherever they happen to be. Not sure that bears on anything said upthread or anything Blanchard writes. I guess I agree that the metaphor is quaint.

feel real sorry rich fucks can't muster the votes to kill vulnerable americans :(

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/02/republicans-obamacare-repeal-votes-237871

There's something very No Exit about voting 50 times or whatever to repeal the ACA, then getting both the White House and both houses of congress, and then continuing to attempt to repeal the ACA, over and over, again and again, for eternity.

Jean Paul Ryan

Hell is Other Congresspeople

My reading of this thread today has basically been just chortling darkly and repeating "OOOOOOOOH, my God" over and over again

so it looks like Trump is finally going to sign his executive order legalizing anti-LGBT discrimination in the service of "religious freedom":

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/02/donald-trump-religious-liberty-executive-order-237888

He's religious free to kiss my ass.

Oh, wait, maybe he's not anymore?

Wonder how long that would last in court, though.

so uh are we going to boycott ourselves now or what? can't isolate the indianas and north carolinas this time around..

That EO is gonna die an immediate death in the court, ACLU and any number of LGBT groups are poised to sue

Hmmm

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/02/politics/sally-yates-michael-flynn-testimony-contradict/index.html

Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates is prepared to testify before a Senate panel next week that she gave a forceful warning to the White House regarding then-National Security Advisor Michael Flynn nearly three weeks before he was fired, contradicting the administration's version of events, sources familiar with her account tell CNN.

In a private meeting January 26, Yates told White House Counsel Don McGahn that Flynn was lying when he denied in public and private that he had discussed US sanctions on Russia in conversations with Russian Ambassador to the US Sergei Kislyak. Flynn's misleading comments, Yates said, made him potentially vulnerable to being compromised by Russia, according to sources familiar with her version of events. She expressed "serious concerns" to McGahn, making it clear -- without making a recommendation -- that Flynn could be fired.

Yates' testimony May 8 will be the first time the former acting attorney general will publicly speak about the White House meeting. A source familiar with the situation says that Yates will be limited on what she can tell the Senate judiciary subcommittee because many of the details involving Flynn are classified, meaning there may only be a few new revelations.

Meantime:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/02/politics/mark-green-army-secretary-nomination/index.html

The nomination of President Donald Trump's Army secretary is in serious jeopardy, and he could be withdrawing as soon as this week, three sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

Mark Green, Trump's second pick to be Army secretary, is facing what the sources described as a difficult -- if not insurmountable -- path to confirmation amid a backlash over his controversial statements on LGBT issues, Islam and evolution.

national queer march on DC (June 11) needed a boost or two

donald trump colluded with vladimir putin to steal the 2016 US presidential election, and we're all like, don't front too hard because it's not cool

mark twain is the number one blues singer in the country. joyce kilmer. blues explosion!

― reggie (qualmsley)

mark twain was right on regarding polk miller and his old south quartette.

There's something very No Exit...

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, May 2, 2017 5:21 PM (thirty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Jean Paul Ryan

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, May 2, 2017 5:29 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hell is Other Congresspeople

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, May 2, 2017 5:31 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Huis Cloture

whenever i see the word "cloture" i...

think of cloaca?

think of nick laird-clowes